by Juan Ramón Jiménez · Optima Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489693937
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«Platero y yo» is the Andalusian elegy in poetic prose by Juan Ramón Jiménez, published by Optima Editorial in hardback (275 pages, in Spanish).
Through brief prose pieces, the poet and his donkey Platero roam Moguer and the Andalusian countryside; the narrator's gaze captures the beauty of the outer world and the tenderness of that friendship, in vignettes that hint at melancholy and life's transience.
The work was originally published in 1914; this edition includes illustrations by Fernando Marco. Juan Ramón Jiménez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.
This work is suitable for secondary school students beginning to explore the classics of Spanish literature.
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity". One of Jiménez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the concept of "pure poetry".
